A menace on the roads. Here are two trucks crashes in 2 days. When God points the finger... The Hume Highway is a 4-lane road, straight, on a slight slope as it climbs the Southern Highlands, not far south of where I live. The road operates under expressway conditions and has a maximum speed of 110 km/h. At 4:30am the other morning, near the Rememberance Road turnoff near Bargo, the 75-year-old driver of a small lorry decided to pull over. He made a mess of it, colliding with the guard rail and getting stuck. He was uninjured, and used his mobile phone to call a towtruck driver, the police, and his son. The towtruck and the police arrived, and to protect the operation, the police closed one lane and placed one car near the site, and one 80 metres up the road with lights flashing to warn oncoming motorists. About 40 minutes later, a B-double semi-trailer arrived and made no effort to slow down, hit the 2 police cars, lost control, and turned over in bushland adjacent to the road. The first police car was thrown through the air and hit the towtruck, killing the driver of the lorry instantly. He was unable to get out of the way fast enough. Soon after, his son arrived to be told the grim news. Truck vs Train Near Lithgow, a small town west of Melbourne, Victoria a road crosses a railway at a level crossing. On Thursday, a train with 2 locomotives and a number of wagons approached the crossing at speed. As it reached the crossing, it was rammed by a semi-trailer. Both locomotives and 44 wagons were derailed creating a huge mess. The body of the truck driver is still to be found.